California: Big Daddy

At Bill Pearl's health studio in
Sacramento last week, a grunting behemoth of a man did twelve pushups,
then collapsed in a sweat. "God, you're strong, Jesse," gasped an
admirer. California Assemblyman Jesse Marvin ("Big Daddy") Unruh, 38,
surveyed his 275-lb. girth and rumbled happily: "If I get any stronger,
I'll be so goddam strong I'll be deadly."

As a politician, Jesse Unruh already bids fair to become the most
powerful Democrat in the nation's second most populous state. A
resident of Los Angeles, he has made Southern California his undisputed
Democratic...